This version of CURRICULUM VITAE was last updated on 2022.11.08.
Professional Experience
2022 (October): Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK. Ongoing
2019 (March): Akita University, Japan. Duration: 5 weeks.
Visitor Research Fellow: Research on combinatorics on words.
2016 (July): Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK. Ongoing
2016 (January): Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK. Duration: 6 months.
Newton International Fellow: Big Data: New Algorithmical Challenges. Newton International Fellowship funding from the British Academy and the Royal Society.
2014 (October): Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK. Duration: 12 months.
Visitor Research Fellow: Research on algorithms on faulty sequences. Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience (P.R.I.M.E.) funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) within a programme co-financed by the Marie Curie Programme of the European Commission.
2013 (June): Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Germany. Duration: 33 months.
Research Fellow: Research on algorithms and combinatorics of sequences DFG grant 582014 and P.R.I.M.E. funding.
2013 (February): LIAFA Research Group, CNRS and Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France. Duration: 1 week.
Visitor Research Fellow: Research on plactic monoids.
2012 (November): Turku University, Turku, Finland. Duration: 1 week.
Visitor Research Fellow: Research on k-abelian avoidability.
Invitation from Dr. Aleksi Saarela.
2011 (December): Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan. Duration: 6 weeks.
Visitor Research Fellow: Research on subword inequalities and palindomes completion.
Invitation from Dr. Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas on JSPS grant no. P10827.
2011 (May): Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guerike-University of Magdeburg, Germany. Duration: 24 months.
Research Fellow: Research on languages of partial words. Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2010 (August): Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. Duration: 4 months.
Research Fellow in a Rovira i Virgili University project, ref: 1355 U07 E30 N-2010PFR-URV-B2-02
2010 (March): LIAFA Research Group, CNRS and Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France. Duration: 3 months.
Visitor Research Fellow: Research on trace monoids and Young tableaux. Mobility Fellowship for obtaining an European PhD Title from the Spanish Ministery of Education
2009 (September): Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. Duration: 12 months.
Research Fellow in a Rovira i Virgili University project, ref: 1323 U07 E30 N-2008/InvAct/Bel, G./BJ01
2009 (June): University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Duration: 6 months.
Research Assistant and Research Fellow: Research on full and partial words.
Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS–0754154.
2009 (February): LIAFA Research Group, CNRS and Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France. Duration: 3 weeks.
Visitor Research Fellow: Research on contextual trace monoids.
Mobility grant under the AutoMathA: from Mathematics to Applications programme funded by the European Science Foundation.
2008 (June): University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Duration: 6 months.
Research Assistant and Research Fellow: Research on partial words.
Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS–0754154.
2007 (September): University of Debrecen, Hungary. Duration: 5 weeks.
Visitor Research Fellow: Research on primitive words.
Invitation from Prof. Dr. Pál Dömösi.
2007 (May): University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Duration: 3 months.
Research Assistant: Research on partial words.
Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS–0452020.
2005 (February): University of Bristol, UK. Duration: 6 months.
One semester of MS studies under the Erasmus mobility programme.
2006-2008: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC), Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
Master of Advanced Studies (Thesis: Avoidability in Partial Words, supervisor Francine Blanchet-Sadri).
2004-2006: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania
MS in Theoretical Computer Science (Thesis: A JAVA interpretor for interactive programs with registers and voice, supervisor Gheorghe Stefanescu)
2000-2004: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania
BS in Computer Science (Graduation paper: Oracle Database Tuning, supervisor George Ungureanu).
1996-2000: High School, National College Nicu Gane Falticeni, Romania.